You'll have one day where the cases get lower (200-400) and a few days it gets a little higher (600), but then it goes back down (400), but then it goes lower (200). It's a consistent downwards trend in most except for the dead south states. They often report this as a "rise" in cases, which is complete bullshit.
The biggest problem I see is that people are fixated on the raw numbers. They see multiple days of your 200/400 numbers (for example) and see one day of 600 which immediately drives them to assume a worst-case scenario. A 7-day average or any other sort of rate of change analysis is a better metric and gives a better snapshot of what's going on. Unfortunately, these type of math skills probably aren't taught any more except when students take pre-calc or honors calculus during their high school years. Godbear forbid people think critically or look at a bigger picture.
It goes beyond that. Without the free daycare school provides, businesses won’t have employees (usually low-skilled jobs that can’t be done remotely). School districts are usually among a community’s largest employers too and I predict they’ll cut jobs if they can’t reopen for in-person instruction. Plus there is a whole “school-industrial complex.” If little Johnny and Sally are learning at home virtually, Pearson and other textbooks manufacturers aren’t selling billions in textbooks. There are billion dollar companies that exist solely, or a subsidiary of other companies, to develop and administer standardized tests for public schools. Dairy farmers are dumping milk because a large part of their business is selling milk to schools. Schools spend a shitload of money, which is school tax is levied on damn near everything. That’s why they want schools open...
In addition to all of this, schools are now the primary source of breakfast or a morning snack for some students, and it's not just districts with a high number of impoverished students.
One of the largest, and most affluent, public school districts in my area scrambled to figure out how to continue their morning breakfast/snack program once schools were closed this Spring and never reopened. Despite the city and surrounding township's affluence, this district attracts a number of students from a nearby city (through schools of choice) that's known for its high number of residents living near or below the Federal Poverty Line with school-aged children that most likely don't get anything to eat in the morning.
With more households where any and all adults work during the day, schools -- for better or worse -- truly have become de facto child care providers.
Detroit groups "By Any Means Necessary" and "Detroit Will Breathe" protested the start of summer school this morning, for fear of Corona. About 100 demonstrators blocked the bus terminal and prevented any buses from leaving to pick up students.
BAMN, ugh. If I recall, this is the same group that felt Detroit Public Schools being under emergency management was usurping local control and providing a more inferior education that what was being offered prior to the emergency management. To see BAMN now turning around and staging this protest that hindered the ability of half of the kids enrolled for summer school to try to learn something is wow
and shows that they care about their own interests more than the educational needs of the kids for whom they claim to be advocating.
Just today, our county decide to turn on the emergency alert system for the first time during corona chan thing. It's about muh rising cases.
I received what appears to be a statewide "Extreme Alert" tonight reminding people about the state's new rules regarding masks.
She’s trying to find any thread of law to keep her emergency powers intact in the face of legal challenges to those powers.
As hinted at above, state Democrats have largely decried emergency management laws because of their use in urban, inner-city areas with financial or educational mismanagement that desperately needed to be addressed. To see a Democratic governor invoke one of these types of laws is surprising because they normally condemn such laws as unjustly removing local control. I agree this sounds like a desperate move to maintain unchecked power, something else Democrats have both criticized and sued President Trump for attempting to do with a number of his executive orders.
unironically think that the protesters are entirely to blame for any resurgence
I think this is the elephant in the room that poses a dilemma for many elected officials. If they admit the protests have contributed to the resurgence, they're portraying those minorities that protested without precautions in a bad light -- something Democrats can't and won't do if they can help it. Furthermore, blaming protests would mean these elected officials would have to concede one or both of the following:
- Minorities, especially African Americans, really are more susceptible to COVID-19, or
- Reopening various business hasn't been the vector that's presently claimed, apart from those people who are taking no precautions and subsequently getting infected as the result of their own poor decision-making
If I've read Michigan's uptick in cases correctly, it started less than two weeks before some of the bigger re-openings but at the same time as the incubation period for COVID-19 would be in effect for the first wave of protests. If that's true, using reopened businesses as the scapegoat is both ingenious by our elected officials and flat out incorrect if we accept the 14 day window for contracting COVID-19.
I do like to point out things I personally see and hear. We can't exactly trust what the official news is saying. What the things I see mean, I don't always know. I guess I'm just a lil' useless oracle like that.
This is one of the biggest frustrations I've observed with all of this. Most normies probably want to do their part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 through common sense precautions. However, conflicting information, misinformation, and the media's tendency to doompill ever since the beginning have all made it difficult to know what to do and what works versus what to avoid and what doesn't work.
(Edited for spelling and clarity)
